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Thursday, July 27. 2006

It's amazing how fast time can fly by when you're having fun (or not having fun, as the case may be). The effort required to make a living has unfortunately taken precedent over playing.

Today, however, I decided enough was enough and decided to play with fire.

A few weeks ago, I acquired a Tiger Torch (ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies). This beast, so sexy in its simplicity, hooks up to a standard bbq tank and pumps out up to 220,000 BTU. Enough to barbeque a brontosaurus burger!

Tonight was just a test to see how hot I could get an impromptu kiln assembled out of fire bricks (If you recall from a previous post, I have made an upper and lower crucible for a reverbratory furnace out of ceramic clay, but need to fire the clay still, hence the kiln.)

I assembled the kiln, and stuck the torch in, hooked up the pyrometer: